Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-06
MINES IN Ell DORADO.
More Gold In Her Mountains than ha.
been Taken Out,


been Taken Out.
J. II. Bradley, one of the leading miners
in FL Dorado county, came up from the
Bay last evening en- route to Placerville
He says the mining outlook in Ell Dorado
county was never brighter than at this
time, and the output Of gold this year will
be larger than for twenty years past, plac-
ing Ell Dorado in at least the third position
as gold-producing county, and from
which position she certainly will soon adj
vance to that OF the first. The quartz
mines in the neighborhood of Placerville
Ell Dorado, Log Town and Grizzly Flat, as
well as many on the north side in the
vicinity of Greenwood, Kelsey, George
town and Garden Valley, are
PAYING HANDSOME DIVIDENDS.
He says that Ell Dorado county has suffered
in the past, from the fact that many of the
mines were neld by those who did not I'M
derstand working them, and who would
not sell them at reasonable prices to those
who had the money to develop them.
Again, merchants in this city and San
Francisco have repeatedly been known to
steer Investments away from FL Doraio
county to Amador, Calaveras and Nevada,
by insisting that all the mines in FL Do
RADIO were worked out" In answer to
such statements, he pointed to the Church
Union, which to-day is the best bullion
producer on the coast-a mine that has a
bonanza in sight second to no other prop
erty in the State. He enumerated score
of other mines, the development of which
showed permanency and great richness.
For the prospector. the man who wants to
make find, FL Dorado county to-day pre-
sents field comparatively unknown and
unprospected. There is belt of quartz
a mother lode several miles in width-tra-
versing the county from north to south
that is full of wealth, and where dollars
have been taken from her ravines and
gulches, there are
MILLIONS IN HER HILLS,
Which only requires intelligent operators
and small outlay of funds to extract and
put in circulation. In other words, he saws
the coming Comstock of the Pacific coast
is in this county. and it is rapidly develop
ing. The facilities for the cheap milling of
ores, owing to the CHEAP, water power every
where obtainable, makes it possible to
work low grade ores at great profit. The
gravel deposits of this county are also be-
ing operated with great profit by the drift
ing process. He exhibited nugget weigh
ing $95, taken from the Carry Hale mine
one day last week, and said finding of such
specimens were of frequent occurrence.
What Fl Dorado county wants is to get
rid of
LOT OF HER OLD CEoAKERs,
Men who are not miners, but who go about
bonding mines and specializing on others.
Men who know nothing of mines but who
are eyerlastingly decrying the county,
claiming there is nothing in it. Those
who desire investments in property that
will yield lasting and profitable returns,
need only to visit the leading mining prop
critics now being successfully operated and
they will be convinced. A sixty-foot shaft
on lode is no test as to its value, and that
is the average depth of the abandoned
mines in the county. Like those in Anna
dor. Calayeras and Nevada, depth is
requisite, and all mines upon this belt that
have been gone down upon to any consid,
cradle depth have proven to De valuable
property. He cited many instances where
those developing their mines had not
stopped to Slope
VERY RICH BODY OF ORE
AS found in going down, but had contin-
ued sinking until they had opened up
mines that a million dollars would not
buy The most striking instance of this
kind, he said, was that of the New London
at plymouth, on the same belt, which
passed through rich ore on every level, but
they found their biggest bonanza at the
depth Of l,050.feet. He added F" Notwith-
standing the continuous asserting by the
merchants of Sacramento and San Fran
cisco, that the mines of FL Dorado are
worthless, we have succeeded in enlisting
the attention of miners of experience, have
secured the investment of large capital,
and our mines are being thoroughly and
Systematically opened, and in short time
our output of bullion will be so large that
it will put to shame these chatterers that
are forever trying to give black eye to
one of the leading industries of the coast
one that puts more wealth in their Golfers,
and does more to develop our State than
all others combined"